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Show CROP IN NEWLY-BROKEN SOD . Sorfhum Qrews Fully as Well as en Old Ground and Is Surest Fodder Fod-der for Live Stock. (Uy J. K. PAYNE, Cilorndo Agricultural Collcg-o.) All nottlers wont to plant crops which will give some returns the first season, so they want to know what crops aro likely to grow welt on sod, nowly.broken. Tho first efforts should be directed to producing food for tho family and for tho horses, cntllo and poultry which are necessary to tho nnlntt-n-ailco of a farm homo. Tho garden will help in this, but It must bo supplemented supple-mented by field cropB grown upon a large scnlo. Tho surest fodder crop for stock Is sorghum It grows fully as well upon sod as upon old ground. It Is not ncc cssary to disk tho sod bofore planting sotghum, but It can bo planted In rows throo feet npart with either grain drill corn plantor, hand planter, or It may bo -planted In every third furrow while breaking the prnlrio. Kafir corn and milo maize may be planted tho samo way as sorghum, and In tho southern part of eastern Colorado, these may prove fully as vnluable as sorghum. Tho mllo wiil 'give somo grain which Is valuablo as food for stock, and especially for chickens. White Australian flint corn has proved valuable ns a sod crop. It ytolds a largo amount of fodder, and Is tho surest to mnko grain of any va-rloty va-rloty tried In oastern Colorado. Swad-ley Swad-ley Is ono of tho surest dont corns, but It doos not make so much fodder as white Austrian corn. Hesldes these there aro a numhor of local varieties which havo been doveloped h selection selec-tion Thoso should bo used whon they nroa vulluhle. |